Digital Unit Plan Template

Unit Title: Las dos caras de la conquista de La Nueva Espaa Name: Daniel Miranda
Content Area: AP Spanish Literature and Culture
Grade Level: 12
CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):
Content:
Cultures
4.3: Explain the changes in perspectives when cultures come in contact.
Connections
3.2: Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign
language and its cultures.
Comparisons
4.2: Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and
their own.
Communication
4.5: Demonstrate understanding of the main ideas and most details in authentic text.
Big Ideas:
How does literacy text manifest different perspectives of culture in the determine period?
How is the socio-cultural-political- context presented in authors written work?
How do the points of view differ among the minority and dominant cultures?
Unit Goals and Objectives:
Unit Goals
Present the multiple perspectives of the Spanish conquest through the point of views of the Conquistadores and the
Indigenous people through written text.
Understand the historical context of the Spanish conquest.
Analyze the socio-cultural-political difference between the two cultures in contact.

 Interpret literacy archetypes through genre, style and themes.

Objectives
At the end of this unit the students will synthesize the main ideas of the Spanish Conquest.
At the end of this unit the students will identify literacy archetypes, themes and multiple perspectives of the text studied.
At the conclusion of this unit the Students will analyze and distinguished the cultures through a written assessment.
Unit Summary:
(This unit is intended to accommodate the AP Spanish literature and culture reading list and test
preparation)
The unit covers the historical period of the colonization of the Americas (New Spain). The teacher and the students will bring
the historical period to life by reliving the Conquest through multiple perspective views. We will examine multiple authentic
testimonies of the Conquest written by the Spaniards and the Indigenous people. The teacher will present a lecture of the
Spanish Conquest context to facilitate the understanding of the text and the period studied. To engage the students with the unit
the teacher will provide a Webexercise to assess the students comprehension of the unit and develop their research skills. The
teacher will provide a Graphic Organizer to complete to further their understanding of the text being studied. The reading will
come directly from the AP Spanish Literature and Culture text and additional articles to enhance their learning will be provided
by the teacher. The text will be read individually and discussed as a class. The teacher will provide PowerPoint (text-visualsvideos) to related to the unit. The students will have support before-during-after the reading to meet unit goals and objectives.
The assessment plan will be utilize to observe and measure the students learning objectives of the unit.
*Please see Digital Unit Template for a complete description of the Assessment Plan.
Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level:
Formative:
Summative:
Anticipation Guide: Composed of 10
Quick Write:
Think-Pair-Share:
TRUE or FALSE statements. I will
Following Lesson 1 Lecture the students
The assessment is composed of 3
select major ideas and facts about the
will engage in a quick write. Ungraded
different stages. This summative
Spanish Conquest to activate prior
writing activity. The students will
assessment will be individual and
knowledge. This will evaluate the
summarize and reflect on what they have collaborative to demonstrate complete

students topic matter competency. I

will modify any necessary changes to
my unit prior to the Teacher Lecture on
Lesson 1 based on this Entry
Assessment.

learned. I will provide a short promptquestion to guide them. This is intended to

build towards the developing process of
their learning. I will collect them to read
and monitor their progress in a portfolio. I
will be able to begin assessing their
comprehension of the main ideas of the
Spanish Conquest.
Dry-Erase Board:
Each group will be given a
dry erase board and they will be ask to
write 3 facts and 3 opinions of the Spanish
Conquest to share with the class.
Each group will be assigned a side
Spaniards or Indigenous. They will
conclude by writing 3 questions to
promote dialogue with other groups and
with the teacher.
Graphic Organizer Concept Map: The
students will complete a web based
Concept Map using Popplet. They will
focus on the literary archetypes,
characteristics, themes and main ideas of
the reading. This will allow me to monitor
the students comprehension of the
multiple perspectives of the Spanish
Conquest through literature.

understanding of the Unit.

The assessment will also brainstorm
ideas to prepare them for the
final assessment of the unit.
Final Unit Exam:
Format essay, by exposing
their comprehension of the multiple
perspectives of the Spanish Conquest
and the literary artwork study.

Quiz:
The quiz will cover the context of the
Spanish Conquest
and literacy archetypes through the text
being observed and studied. The quiz will
be short answer prompts; multiple-choice
questions and fill in the blank that will
lead to the final summative assessment.

Lesson 1
Student Learning
Objective:
At the end of this
lesson the students
will synthesize the
main ideas of the
Spanish Conquest.

Lesson 2
Student Learning
Objective:

Acceptable
Evidence:
Identify the period,
cultures and main
characters.

Instructional
Strategies:

Communication
Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization
Interaction

Lesson Activities:
Prezi presentation with guided notes. (Spanish
Conquest context). Lesson 1 Teacher Lecture.
Utilize videos (YouTube) to bring the historical
context to the class.
During presentation the teacher stops to ask
higher thinking questions relevant to main ideas.
Includes guided notes
Engaged Pedagogy

Acceptable
Evidence:

Instructional
Strategies:

Lesson Activities:

At the end of this unit

the students will
distinguished literacy
archetypes, identify
themes and recall
important dates .

Lesson 3
Student Learning
Objective:
At the end of this
lesson the students
will identify literacy
archetypes, themes

Activity:
The students will
complete a
Webexercise utilizing
internet resources
provided by the
teacher. This will
serve as supplemental
learning prior to
reading the actual text
and focus of the unit.
Consist of higher
thinking questions to
enhance the learning
of the students. They
must answer 80% of
the questions
correctlty.

Communication
Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization
Interaction

Acceptable
Evidence:
The students will
complete a Graphic
Organizer Concept
Map. Scoring a 8 to

Instructional
Lesson Activities:
Strategies:
The students will read the assigned reading text at
Communication
home.

The class will re-read and discuss the reading as a

Collection
class.
Collaboration
Complete the Popplet Graphic Organizer
Presentation

Webquest
Research required web sites to complete the
webexercise.
Complete the PBS digital interactive

and multiple
perspectives of the
text studied.
Unit Resources:

10 using the rubric.

Organization
Interaction

(Follow rubric and example)

Voces de Hispanoamrica: antologa literaria. Raquel Chang-Rodrguez - Malva E.Filer - Thomson/Heinle 2004
Imbert, Enrique A., and Eugenio Florit. Literatura Hispanoamericana Antologa e Introduccin Histrica. N.p.: n.p., 1967.
Print.
Historia de la literatura espaola Angel del.Ro - Holt, Rinehart and Winston - 1963

Useful Websites:
Additional Reading Support
https://www.classzone.com/net_explorations/U4/U4_article5.cfm
http://www.umich.edu/~ece/student_projects/conquest/
http://www.pbs.org/conquistadors/cortes/cortes_flat.html
http://teachers.yale.edu/curriculum/viewer/initiative_05.02.07_u#h1num-6
Video Interactive YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz6AxV0RP8g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC-0fL-x0aA
Readings (access online)
http://axayacatl.edu.mx/historia/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/LeonPortillaMiguelLaVisiondelosVencidos.pdf